Asplenium appendiculatum subsp. maritimum (Brownsey) Brownsey

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Name scientific

Asplenium appendiculatum subsp. maritimum (Brownsey) Brownsey, New Zealand J. Bot. 37: 369 (1999)

Preferred name

Asplenium appendiculatum subsp. maritimum (Brownsey) Brownsey

Taxonomy reference

Brownsey, P.J. 1999: A new combination in Asplenium. New Zealand Journal of Botany 37(2): 369.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Brownsey, P.J.; Smith-Dodsworth, J.C. (2000)

Nomenclature

Authors

(Brownsey) Brownsey

Original authors

Brownsey

Combination authors

Brownsey

Publication place

Brownsey, P.J. 1999: A new combination in Asplenium. New Zealand Journal of Botany 37(2): 369.

Year published

1999

Publication page

369

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Asplenium terrestre subsp. maritimum Brownsey

Taxonomic rank

subsp.

Canonical form

Asplenium appendiculatum subsp. maritimum

Etymology

From the Latin maritimus (growing by the sea), a reference to the habitat of this subspecies.

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Polypodiopsida

Order

Polypodiales

Family

Aspleniaceae

Genus

Asplenium

Species

appendiculatum

Synonyms

Descriptions

Brownsey, P.J. 1977: A taxonomic revision of the New Zealand species of Asplenium. New Zealand Journal of Botany 15(1): 39–86.

Asplenium terrestre subsp. maritimum Brownsey

Description

Laminae relatively short and broad, elliptic, 10-25 × 7-20 cm, very thick and fleshy, stiff and upright. Pinnae 7-15 pairs, those at the base ovate, those above narrowly ovate, acute. Upper pinnules linear and entire, lower pinnules ovate to elliptic and pinnatifid, up to 20 × 10 mm.

Diagnosis

Lamina pro ratione brevis lataque, elliptica, 10-25 × 7-20 cm, crassissima, carnosa, rigida, erecta. Pinnae 7-15 jugatae, inferiores ovatae, superiores anguste ovatae, acutae. Pinnulae superiores lineares integraeque, inferiores ovatae vel ellipticae pinnatifidaeque, usque ad 20 × 10 mm. Numerus somaticus chromosomatum 288; in meiosi paria 144 observantur.

Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.